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Job 4 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Eliphaz: Innocent Do Not Suffer

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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

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“If we dare to converse with you, will you be impatient [or offended]?

But who can restrain himself from speaking?

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“Behold, you have admonished and instructed many,

And you have strengthened weak hands.

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“Your words have helped the one who was stumbling to stand,

And you have strengthened feeble knees.

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“But now [fn]adversity comes upon you, and you are impatient and intolerant;

It touches you, and you are horrified.

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“Is not your fear of God your confidence,

And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?

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“Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished?

Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?

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“As I have seen, those who plow wickedness

And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.

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“By the breath of God they perish,

And by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

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“The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion,

And the teeth of the young lions are broken.

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“The lion perishes for lack of prey,

And the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

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“Now a word was secretly brought to me,

And my ear received a whisper of it.

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“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,

When deep sleep falls on men,

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Dread and trembling came upon me,

Which made all my bones shake.

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“Then a spirit passed before my face;

The hair on my skin stood on end!

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“The spirit stood still, but I could not discern its appearance;

A form was before my eyes;

There was silence, and then I heard a voice, saying:

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‘Can [mortal] man be just before God or be more righteous than He?

Can a man be pure before his Maker or be more cleansed than He?

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‘God puts no trust or confidence, even in His [heavenly] servants,

And He charges His angels with error.

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‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,

Whose foundations are in the dust,

Who are crushed like a moth.

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‘Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces and destroyed;

Unobserved and unnoticed, they perish forever.

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‘Is not their tent-cord drawn up within them [so that the tent collapses]?

Do they not die, and yet without [acquiring] wisdom?’

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